A sequencer for crow inspired by Make Noise’s Rene v2. Still very much a work in progress and there may be several bugs. PRs welcome. This is the first norns script that I’ve shared so feedback is appreciated.
Requirements
norns, grid
Documentation
Norns’ screen indicates which parts of the grid correspond to which parameters of the sequencer.
For access, gate, and glide, press keys on the grid to enable / disable behavior for a particular step.
Hold a grid key in the step section and turn E2 to change the current note on that step.
Go to params to map the various layers’ clock in and cv and gate outputs.
hah, a while ago i started a similar project with the same name but never made much progress with it! glad to see something like this, excited to play around with it.
For the past weeks I’ve thought about buying a Rene v1 to record some melodies into my Nerdseq but this might be a good replacement!
Congratulations on releasing this script it looks awesome
Edit:
I installed the script and I’m getting this in Matron and a “error:init” message on my Norns Shield
home/we/dust/code/descartes/descartes.lua:551: attempt to index a nil value (global ‘saveState’)
stack traceback:
/home/we/norns/lua/core/norns.lua:146: in metamethod ‘__index’
/home/we/dust/code/descartes/descartes.lua:551: in global ‘loadData’
/home/we/dust/code/descartes/descartes.lua:93: in global ‘init’
/home/we/norns/lua/core/script.lua:131: in function ‘core/script.init’
[C]: in function ‘xpcall’
/home/we/norns/lua/core/norns.lua:147: in field ‘try’
/home/we/norns/lua/core/engine.lua:91: in function </home/we/norns/lua/core/engine.lua:89>
edit2:
OK figured it out!
It seems that the loaddata() function call in line 93 is loading something that doesn’t exist!
I commented it out and the script was able to load but I guess that the side effect is that the state of the script doesn’t persist between restarts. Might be a solution to have a “descartes_save_state.txt” included with the install?
Ok, MIDI output and internal clocking is now live! The script is now no longer so heavily reliant on crow. I also took care of a couple of bugs (thanks @hallmar for bringing the loadData issue to my attention).
There may still be bugs that I haven’t found so please let me know if you encounter anything. Also, I don’t personally use MIDI much in my own workflow so I’m open to feedback on the implementation here.
Seriously though, midi would be ace!
